From what I understand, Cool "Disco" Dan was *hated* by other taggers. More talented sorts would spend a night doing some work that actually did look good, and then a week later along comes Cool "Disco" Dan to put his tag on top of it.

maxheck:Actually, the Park Service is an organization that has it's act together. It'll be done quickly.

I happen to know the guy who was in charge of the lighting part of the Lincoln Memorial's recent renovation. Given that it was mostly paid for by private donations and everything came in on time and under budget, that might not be where you want to make an anti-government-waste rant.

The NPS does a great job, I think because it's pretty much been on a starvation diet since Clinton left office. I'd worry more about DHS farking things up.

Did you read the comments? There seems to be a lot of Lincoln hate out there.

My favorite part... they're all facebook accounts.

So much for the hypothesis linking Facebook to commenting sites would clean up the comments...

No one believed that. It was a scam to help organize advertising dollars. If you want polite, informative discussions on the internet, you'll find sites with pseudonymous identities, and rigorous moderation do best(not fark).

maxheck:Absolutely zero.They'll first have a team of Ph.D. contractors do an analysis of the damage, which will take three years and force the entire monument to be closed. Then, another contractor will come in and cut out the damaged pieces and new pieces will be carved from the same limestone or marble that was originally used. That will take five years. The the new pieces will be installed, which will take until 2024.Everybody gets paid.

Actually, the Park Service is an organization that has it's act together. It'll be done quickly.

I happen to know the guy who was in charge of the lighting part of the Lincoln Memorial's recent renovation. Given that it was mostly paid for by private donations and everything came in on time and under budget, that might not be where you want to make an anti-government-waste rant.

With all of the green painted memorials around there who knows it could have been an accident.

/fine police work there, Lou

Gawd, I'm telling you.Last time I visited the National Mall, there were multiple incidents of accidental green paint throwing. People just have to be more careful with their open buckets of green paint.sigh.

Did you read the comments? There seems to be a lot of Lincoln hate out there.

My favorite part... they're all facebook accounts.

So much for the hypothesis linking Facebook to commenting sites would clean up the comments...

No one believed that. It was a scam to help organize advertising dollars. If you want polite, informative discussions on the internet, you'll find sites with pseudonymous identities, and rigorous moderation do best(not fark).

Rigorous moderation becomes censorship to the extreme, resulting in the creation of an echo chamber. It's better to let a few trolls slip through than to remove someone that just has a differing opinion than the moderator on duty.

With all of the green painted memorials around there who knows it could have been an accident.

/fine police work there, Lou

Gawd, I'm telling you.Last time I visited the National Mall, there were multiple incidents of accidental green paint throwing. People just have to be more careful with their open buckets of green paint.sigh.

Really?

You know, if you're going to make shiat up and lie, you should probably get a job at Fox first.

This type of reprehensible act is unfortunate but it did not permanently damage the memorial and this incident further underscores the need for the National Park Service to provide more funding and more personnel so as to provide a higher level of deterrence through officer presence. We are fortunate that this deplorable act can be remedied but caution that we are lucky that this wasn't an act of terrorism.

Did you read the comments? There seems to be a lot of Lincoln hate out there.

My favorite part... they're all facebook accounts.

So much for the hypothesis linking Facebook to commenting sites would clean up the comments...

No one believed that. It was a scam to help organize advertising dollars. If you want polite, informative discussions on the internet, you'll find sites with pseudonymous identities, and rigorous moderation do best(not fark).

Rigorous moderation becomes censorship to the extreme, resulting in the creation of an echo chamber. It's better to let a few trolls slip through than to remove someone that just has a differing opinion than the moderator on duty.

It really doesn't though. You kill the following things, and the rest just follows: blatant bigotry, low-content posts, and repetitive memes. Pretty much every terrible poster engages in one of those.

It's almost funny in how pathetic it looks. You can almost see someone with a half-pint of green paint smuggled under their coat, furtively looking around to see if anyone is watching, thinking to himself "Man, this is going to be so badass, I'll drench this statue in green and then they'll know man, they'll know what this country is really about, man!"

Yeah turns out that statue is pretty big huh? You may need a second coat there, Che.

HotIgneous Intruder:maxheck: Absolutely zero.They'll first have a team of Ph.D. contractors do an analysis of the damage, which will take three years and force the entire monument to be closed. Then, another contractor will come in and cut out the damaged pieces and new pieces will be carved from the same limestone or marble that was originally used. That will take five years. The the new pieces will be installed, which will take until 2024.Everybody gets paid.

Actually, the Park Service is an organization that has it's act together. It'll be done quickly.

I happen to know the guy who was in charge of the lighting part of the Lincoln Memorial's recent renovation. Given that it was mostly paid for by private donations and everything came in on time and under budget, that might not be where you want to make an anti-government-waste rant.